I agree with Alex. The spam was annoying (until gmail started filtering it completely for me) but having it all in my email is a better option for me.
Carl On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Alex Chaffee <[email protected]> wrote: > > Please keep the Google Group. Every web-based forum is missing some > feature that email has that is vitally important to some people and > irrelevant or invisible to others (usually it's the latter type who > advocate moving to a web-based system, imagining everyone else will > follow them there because of some whiz-bang feature that's caught > their fancy). > > The most important feature for me is the ability for replies and new > messages to show up in my inbox. If something requires me to visit > some web site, or, Lord help me, register for yet another account in > order to post a message, then it may as well not exist. And even if I > do muster the abnormal motivation to follow a discussion into the > wasteland, I am continually assaulted by misfeatures like hierarchical > threading, animated avatars, spastic layouts and color schemes, broken > search... > > Google Groups have searching, archiving, moderation, etc. etc. etc. I > understand the need for a more featureful ticket system but please > please please keep discussions in a mailing list where they belong. > > - A > > On Jun 24, 4:27 pm, Morten Bagai <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey there, > > > > I made that settings change for the group, and also nuked some of > > recent spam. Sorry about the inconvenience. On a related note, we're > > very interested in how we can make the support/community experience > > better for you guys. > > > > One of the actions I'm considering is moving the Heroku discussion > > forum to our Zendesk support system at support.heroku.com. It has a > > decent forums feature, which you can check out here: > http://support.heroku.com/forums/51588/entries > > . If you have any feedback on that I'd love to hear about it. > > > > Best, > > > > Morten > > > > On Jun 24, 2009, at 8:18 AM, ladyfox14 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > I second that. > > > > > It would also be nice if groups.google.com had a spam button that > > > could only be used for registered users. > > > > > Or is it possible for heroku to set up a forum on their main page? > > > > > On Jun 23, 9:12 am, Trevor Turk <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I've read elsewhere that setting the "first post by a user must be > > >> approved by a moderator" thingy in Google Groups can really help with > > >> spam... > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
